5 ridiculous stories related to Cristiano Ronaldo

#3 He’s got a nasty nickname for Lionel Messi

It was claimed that Ronaldo had a nasty nickname for Lionel Messi

The truth behind the relationship between Cristiano Ronaldo and the man who rivals him as the world’s best player, Lionel Messi, remains shrouded by rumours and questions. The two men have never truly aimed insults at one another and seem to have a healthy professional respect, even if they clearly want to out-do each other on the pitch.

In 2014, however, famous football journalist Guillem Balague reported different. In his book about Messi, he claimed that Ronaldo wouldn’t even speak his name and had instead nicknamed the Argentine star “mother*cker”, and used the same slur to describe any Real Madrid teammates seen speaking to him.

In turn, the Madrid players supposedly referred to Messi as Ronaldo’s dog or puppet.

Clearly wishing to distance himself from such a nasty report, Ronaldo vehemently denied the claims, stating that they were absolutely false, that he had the utmost respect for Messi and all of his professional colleagues, and that he was instructing his lawyers to consider suing the writers responsible for the allegation.

Whether Ronaldo actually likes Messi is a big question mark but the likelihood of him using such an unprofessional nickname is pretty ridiculous.